Chris Geiger was driving to work at Center Point DAAC’s addiction-treatment headquarters in Santa Rosa when an ambulance zoomed past and turned down the street toward the recovery center.
Suspecting a client may be in crisis, Geiger arrived to find EMTs already at the scene in a parking lot across from the center treating a man for a fentanyl-induced emergency. According to DAAC employees, the man and a friend had been nearby taking opioids when the friend suffered a potentially fatal overdose. Knowing DAAC provides free life-saving Narcan, the man sprinted across the lot to the recovery center, which administered the medication known to reverse the effects of a fentanyl overdose.
Geiger, the interim regional vice president at Center Point DAAC, was relieved—foremost for their saving the man’s life, but also to know that DAAC’s reputation as a space for life-saving drug treatment came through in such a critical moment, a kind of crisis seen all-too frequently in recent years in the North Bay…